MINIMUM WAGE HIKE ARGUMENT

A recent letter in defense of a frozen (no increase) minimum wage is like defending slavery: correct in an abstract, economic sort of way, but equally inhumane and defenseless.

I thought conservatives believed in a rising tide raising all boats. Now the argument seems to be that we can't pay a living, reasonable wage to those at the bottom because each subsequent employee will insist on a corresponding correction to their salary.

First, even if that were true, what's wrong with that? Even worse, that argument is false. Are we really to believe that executives, managers, senior staff and the rest of a well-paid company (all of whom make more than the minimum wage employee) will demand pay raises if we increase the minimum wage of the lowly, hourly employee? Given the unfair pay differentials that already exist in our society, those at the top wouldn't even notice.